Search and replace from lists? Thread poster: Heinrich Pesch
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Heinrich Pesch 
Finland
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Finnish to German
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I wonder if someone has already programmed such a macro. There would be a file with a two-column table and a Word-document. The marco would pick the first string of column A, search for the string in the Word-document and replace all occurences by the string of column B. Then it would pick the second string of column A, search and replace by the second string in column B etc.
This would come in handy it you first have translated a manual with software strings, and later you seperately tran... See more I wonder if someone has already programmed such a macro. There would be a file with a two-column table and a Word-document. The marco would pick the first string of column A, search for the string in the Word-document and replace all occurences by the string of column B. Then it would pick the second string of column A, search and replace by the second string in column B etc.
This would come in handy it you first have translated a manual with software strings, and later you seperately translate the software strings in form of a table. The macro would update the earlier translated manual.
But such a macro could be used for a lot of other purposes, I would guess.
Regards
Heinrich ▲ Collapse
| | | | Haiyang Ai (X)
United States
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| Juan Perello
Chile
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| Aleksndr Okunev's Tortoise tagger | Dec 12, 2007 |
Though it is originally meant to tag documents according to a previously created taglist,
it can also be used as a utility to search and replace from lists. I just tried it last week. Be sure to read the manual first. You can use the "Fuzzying Wordfast glossary" section as a hint to create your own search & replace list.
http://www.accurussian.net/tagger.htm
Regards,... See more Though it is originally meant to tag documents according to a previously created taglist,
it can also be used as a utility to search and replace from lists. I just tried it last week. Be sure to read the manual first. You can use the "Fuzzying Wordfast glossary" section as a hint to create your own search & replace list.
http://www.accurussian.net/tagger.htm
Regards,
Juan Luis ▲ Collapse
| | | | Jaroslaw Michalak
Poland
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English to Polish
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I have not tried this, but I think you can use Trados for this (yes, it can sometimes be useful! ).
First you have to have the list in MultiTerm (if you don't, you have to import it, which, I admit, may be a hassle).
Then you translate automatically the files with an empty TM and the options "Segment unknown sentences" set on and "Translate terms" set to "Replace".
Finally, clean up th... See more I have not tried this, but I think you can use Trados for this (yes, it can sometimes be useful! ).
First you have to have the list in MultiTerm (if you don't, you have to import it, which, I admit, may be a hassle).
Then you translate automatically the files with an empty TM and the options "Segment unknown sentences" set on and "Translate terms" set to "Replace".
Finally, clean up the files. This should give you back your original files with the MT terms replaced. At least I hope it works this way.
The advantages of this method: you can replace terms in many files at once and you are not limited to doc format. ▲ Collapse
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| Wordfast blacklists? | Dec 12, 2007 |
Hello Heinrich,
I believe Wordfast can do this by means of blacklisting terms. I never tried it myself, but this is one of the capabilities of the coming term base in MemoQ v2.3 (not a mass find and replace by purpose, but the possibility to enter 'do not use' terms and replace them quickly with the 'use' versions) and when discussing that with some translators they told me that something like that already exists in Wordfast, and it's called blacklist. If you have some solution, ple... See more Hello Heinrich,
I believe Wordfast can do this by means of blacklisting terms. I never tried it myself, but this is one of the capabilities of the coming term base in MemoQ v2.3 (not a mass find and replace by purpose, but the possibility to enter 'do not use' terms and replace them quickly with the 'use' versions) and when discussing that with some translators they told me that something like that already exists in Wordfast, and it's called blacklist. If you have some solution, please let me know.
Best regards,
István ▲ Collapse
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I think such a macro already exists in WordFisher and could be used to accomplish your task in quite a straight-forward way. You would simply have to make a character-separated list version of the conversion table (using Word's "Convert table-to-text") and then run the wfReplace function of WordFisher on your Word document.
| | | | Tony M
France
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SITE LOCALIZER | Another approach | Dec 12, 2007 |
I don't have this as a Word macro, but I do have it as a piece of standalone software currently under development.
It does just that: searches for a given string, and replaces each with an alternative string from a list.
At the moment, it works with a text-only file, and list management has to be done manually; it is also fairly touchy about the order of cascading strings, and dealing with caps and punctuation.
But for the dedicated application I designed i... See more I don't have this as a Word macro, but I do have it as a piece of standalone software currently under development.
It does just that: searches for a given string, and replaces each with an alternative string from a list.
At the moment, it works with a text-only file, and list management has to be done manually; it is also fairly touchy about the order of cascading strings, and dealing with caps and punctuation.
But for the dedicated application I designed it for, it works superbly well, and in about 10 secs saves me literally HOURS of work.
If there is enough interest, I have my developer standing by waiting to pursue the development of the project.
I might add that I started development of this because conventional CAT tools just couldn't achieve what I needed so simply or easily. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Heinrich Pesch
Finland
Local time: 16:18
Member (2003)
Finnish to German
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TOPIC STARTER | Thanks for the information | Dec 13, 2007 |
I have loaded Wordfisher now and will try it out.
regards
Heinrich
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